Robin Day

Robin Day (24 October 1923-6 August 2000) was a British political broadcaster and commentator.

Biography
Robin Day was born in London, England in 1923, and he served in the British Army in East Africa during World War II. In 1952, he briefly served as a lawyer, and he ultimately decided to become a journalist. He rose to prominence on the new Independent Television Network from 1955, and he was the first British journalist to interview Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser following the Suez Crisis of 1956. In 1958, he interviewed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, turning Macmillan into a television personality. In 1959, he resigned from the ITN staff to stand in the 1959 general election as a Liberal Party candidate for Hereford, but he failed to win, and he moved to the BBC. He was a regular on all BBC general election night programmes from the 1960s until 1987. He died in 2000.